Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-15

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vii beat that.
Congressman Reagan, Of Texas, the
aushor Of the Inter State CommeFce
Iaw, should be eiscted 20 chase hinself
around the block. and then remain IN
Texas. II ali the carses that hsve been
showered on his devoted head By the
base ball and show people had taken
eFscs be would Be walking red-hos rail-
road ties m Hsdes-
Mike Kelly says that under the nev
rules Mccormick will Be the sffo1Rese
pitcher in the eountry, - the way thai
Mac has always delivered the bah ID in
csupliance With the new regulations,
and be wiIl not have 10 begin ever aga
70 learn how TO do IL, as many Of the
other crack pitchers viii have to do.
The pitchers, 40 the exhibition games
develop, viii have bard work 10 do, and
their success depends largely on 9 strong
arm and 9 sound head. Already the
clubs have come TO the conviction that
younR, unframed arms are not tkinRs
10 be % very much depended on. Old
arEns are in demand, and hence the live
" skiEmish after Mccormick and Weld
man
A Dstrois correspondent says that
Weidman ia going TO watch the bases
closer this year than be ever did before.
BE has q scheme that viii bold base
runners on second closer than they usu.
ally hug that base, or some OF them VII
be caught nsppinR. When in the box
be turns and throws TO she bass with
wonderful speed and precision.
Hull, the Milwaukee, third baseman,
Is q Colorado miner, and has had con-
siderable expsriencs in the silver mines
out West. Last winter he struck what
be thought was o rich vein OF silver ore,
upon which be wrote Manager Hart:-
Have struck IL rich; have got the world
By the tail" The vein did not pan
ous' IS well az he expected, and he
must have subsequently thought that
the tail pulled out too easily.
There is no field or team captain liv
ing who is Anson's equal in tact and q
bility. The talk about his retiring from
active work is the veriest sosh. When
Arson leaves the Chicago Club the team
will be bersft OF q great part OF its
strength. As q team ano field general
he never had an equal. COniskey and
Ward come next IN the estimate, bat
neither can be called an Arson.
There is in Connections q youth who
is regarded as insane because be talks
of nothing bat base ball, and knows just
how each game Is going 20 turn out. II
this ia lunacy half the people in the
United States will be bali-lunatics for
she next six months. The only known
remedy for this disease is TO give the pa
TENT three hoars's daily sun bath and
a seat on the soft side of q hemclok
board, facing q diamond. Even this
treatment too often ageFavates instead
OF curing the dizziness Of the individual
treated.
Tom Eek, the bicyclist, tainted while
rae NJ twenty five miles With Fred
Straub, of Fairvaul., Minnesota, al MINI
eapolis on the 18th. The FIRST mile was
finished in about 3:30, which is good tine
for rink seventeen laps to the mile. Al
the ifth mile Eek was about half @ lap
ahead OF Straub, and remained in this
position until the twenty-hrst mile,
| when, as Eok was rounding the upper
turn, some one in trying to cross the
track was run into by Eok, causing him
to take Q terrible header. He was
thrown from the wheel to the floor,
breaking bis right wrist and fractur-
ing one leg. While talking he tainted
and fell to the floor.
Weidmsn ought to do great work this
season, as bis heart will be in his work
He was dead stuck on once more play
ing with Detroit. Long before other
pitchers touched ball be secured hall
and commenced practice under the new
rules. Telegram after telegram asking
fer his terms he pocketed; offer after
offer be refused in the hopes that De-
troit might require bis services, and he
never wrote his name more joyfully than
when be signed Detroit contract. be il
strong, hardy and in fine muscular and
| physical condition, and will undoubted.
ly show up strong in the box. More
over, he is happy to the limit Of entha-
siasm at being enrolled as a member Of
a club that he regards as wInnir.
IL the role OF scoring bases on balls as
b 81 bits be carried through the entire
asou, the 800 per cent. batters will bs
Qlite common before October. Toe
stem will increase the general batting
about 40 per cent, so that q player
whose record last season was 800 pei
cent. should roll mp to .420 per cent,
while the leader ought to bring up some
where IN the .500s, or may be get to 800.
No player should come below $50 per
cent. This argument ia made upon the
present showing of kases on balls given
By various pitchers. 1t is possible that
the percentage OF bases on balls may be
lowered as the pitchers get more prac-
ttce and acquire greater accuracy.
LEAGUE GAMES.